Line justifying device



Aug. 27, 1968 B. H. PARKER. JR 3,398,670

LINE JUSTIFYING DEVICE Filed Feb. 11. 1966 INVENTOR BRUCE H. PARKER JR. 8)

V/l/Mn UGQ ATTORNEY United States Patent 3,398,670 LINE JUSTIFYING DEVICE Bruce H. Parker, Jr., 15 Woodland Road, Orinda, Calif. 94563 Filed Feb. 11, 1966, Ser. No. 526,840 3 Claims. (Cl. 95-85) ABSTRACT OF THE DISCLOSURE A line justifying device in which a backing sheet has a pressure sensitive adhesive on its front face in order to cause a flexible and stretchable front sheet to adhere to it. The front sheet has a plurality of horizontal and spaced apart slits dividing the sheet into a plurality of rows designed to receive typing. The hacking sheet has a vertical cut spaced from the right hand edge for forming a marginal tear strip that may be removed after typing to free the right hand ends of the rows. The justifying of each row is accomplished by grasping the freed right hand end and peeling a portion of the row from the backing sheet, stretching it to the desired extent and reapplying the row so that it will be held by the adhesive in its stretched condition to form a uniform right hand margin of typing with the other rows.

The present invention relates to improvements in a line justifying device, and it consists in the combination, construction and arrangement of parts hereinafter described and claimed.

The present invention has the backing sheet provided with the pressure sensitive adhesive on its front face and the parallel rows on the flexible and stretchable front sheet will adhere to the backing sheet. The backing sheet has a vertical cut placed near to and paralleling its right hand edge so as to provide a marginal tear strip. After the typing or the placing of characters on the rows is completed and the operator wishes to justify the typed rows so as to cause the typed portions to make a uniform right hand margin, he removes the tear strip from the backing sheet and this will free the right hand end portions of the rows. These freed end portions will now constitute tabs by means of which the operator may individually pull the typed portion of the row free of the backing sheet and permit the uniform stretching of the row to justify it and make an even right hand margin of the typed portion after which the freed portion of the row is reapplied to the backing sheet while in its stretched condition by pressing the row down upon the pressure sensitive adhesive. The backing sheet will maintain the row in its evenly stretched condition. The invention is simple in construction.

Other objects and advantages will appear as the specification continues and the novel features of the invention will be set forth in the appended claims.

Drawing For a better understanding of my invention reference should be made to the accompanying drawing forming part of this specification, in which FIGURE 1 is a front elevation of the device.

FIGURE 2 is an end View of FIGURE 1.

FIGURE 3 is a section taken along the line 33 of FIGURE 1.

FIGURE 4 is a rear elevation of the device.

FIGURE 5 is an end view of FIGURE 4.

FIGURE 6 is a section taken along the line 66 of FIGURE 4.

While I have shown only the preferred form of my invention, it should be understood that various changes or modifications may be made within the scope of the annexed claims without departing from the spirit thereof.

, 3,398,670 Patented Aug. 27, 1968 Detailed description In carrying out my invention I provide a flexible backing sheet A that has a film of a pressure sensitive adhesive 1 on its front surface. The backing sheet A may be made of any desired material and can be of any size or shape desired. A front sheet B of stretchable material is secured to the backing sheet by pressing the front sheet against the film 1 of the pressure sensitive adhesive. This adhesive will permit the removal of any portion of the front sheet and the reapplying of the portion to the backing for causing this portion to readhere to the backing.

The front stretchable sheet B is provided with a plurality of parallel cuts 2 that extend transversely across the sheet and are equally spaced from each other to provide a plurality of parallel rows C that can receive typing or have characters printed thereon. The front surface of the flexible and stretchable front sheet B is designed to receive typing from a typewriter or to recieve other characters that may be printed thereon. The backing sheet A has a longitudinal cut 3 that extends at right angles to the parallel cuts 2 in the front sheet B. The cut 3 parallels the right hand edge 4 of the backing sheet, see the upper portion of FIGURE 4'that is a rear view of the line justifying device and illustrates the backing sheet A. The cut 3 is spaced a short distance from the edge 4 and provides a removable tear strip D for the backing sheet. Since the tear strip D has the film 1 of the pressure sensitive adhesive on its front surface, it will adhere to the right hand edges of the parallel rows C of the front sheet B.

Operation From the foregoing description of the various parts of the device, the operation thereof may be readily undere stood. In FIGURE 1, the front sheet B is shown. The

upper portion of this figure illustrates my line justifying device after three of the parallel rows C have received typing from a typewriter. Note that row C1 has been typed and the last letter D in the word GOOD is positioned slightly to the left of the right hand margin indicating line5 on the sheet B. The line 5 is pale blue in color in order that it cannot be photographed. In the next row C2, the last letter F in the word OF is positioned further to the left of the right hand margin indicating line 5, These two typed lines on the rows C1 and C2 have been made from a typewriter and the usual spacing between adjacent words has been made. The left hand margin is straight. The typing on the third row C3 is short because it has only two words and this row will need no justifying.

The lower portion of FIGURE 1, shows the same three rows C1, C2, C3, after the rows C1 and C2 have been justified. The operator after removing the line justifying device from the typewriter, not shown, tears off the tear strip D that is shown in the upper portion of FIG- URE 4, that illustrates the rear view of the device. The removal of the tear strip D, frees the right hand ends of the rows C, and the freed ends constitute pull tabs 6 for the rows.

To adjust the typed line C1 in FIGURE 1, the freed pull tab 6 shown in the lower view of this figure, is grasped by the operator and is pulled upwardly so as to peel off the typed portion of this row from the backing sheet A. The operator places a finger of his left hand on the left hand end of the row C1 so as to prevent this end from being peeled off from the backing sheet A. As soon as the entire typed portion on the row C1 has been peeled free of the backing sheet A, the operator pulls the tab 6 of this row to the right for uniformly stretching the row until the last letter D in the row is brought into registration with the right hand margin indicating line 5. When this is done the operator holds the freed portion of the row C1 in its stretched condition and moves the tab 6 toward the backing sheet A. This movement will reapply the stretched portion of the row back onto the backing sheet where the pressure sensitive adhesive will readhere the row to the backing in its stretched condition.

The backing sheet A could be laid upon a convex shaped support, not shown, for this purpose where the highest portion of the support would be centrally disposed and extend in the same direction as the lengths of the backing and front sheets. Then the natural hump in the center of the support and lying between thetwo endsof the row C1 would create pressure on the undersurface of the row as the tab 6 of the row was moved downward against the right hand side of the backing sheet A. This pressure against the undersurface of the row would aid in causing the freed portion of the row to be reapplied to the backing sheet because the row would be pressed against the pressure sensitive adhesive film on the backing sheet.

In like manner the operator grasps the pull tab 6 for the next row C2, and pulls n the tab for freeing the typed portion of the row from the backing sheet, care being taken that the left hand end of the same row is held down so as not to be pulled away from the backing sheet. The typed portion of the row C2 must be lengthened more than the typed portion of the row C1 because the right hand letter F in the row C2 must be moved a greater distance than the movement of the letter D in the row C1, in order to register the last letter F with the right hand margin indicating line 5. The row C2 is held in its stretched condition while being reapplied to the backing sheet in the same manner as described for the row C1.

The third row C3 has a much shorter typed portion and this row does not need to be justified. Both FIGURES 1 and 4 show in their lower views that the pull tab 6 for the row C2 has been extended beyond the end of the pull tab for the row C1. The right hand margin for the typed portions of the rows C1 and C2 will be aligned with the right hand margin indicating line 5. The justified rows will remain in their stretched conditions and the typed portions of the rows will be uniformly expanded so that the characters and spacing will look to be the same as they did before the rows were stretched. The justified type lines will have a right hand margin that aligns with the margin indicating line and the front sheet may be photographed or otherwise be reproduced for making as many copies as desired.

If a sticky back solution is applied to the platten or roller of the typewriter, not shown, there will be no slippage between the roller and my line justifying device when rotating the roller for advancing the device from one typed row to the next one to be typed. The height of each row is equal to the angular advance made by the roller or platten each time the roller is rotated from one line to the next. Therefore the typewriting on successive rows on my device can be made in the same manner as if a single sheet of paper were in the typewriter and was receiving typing.

I claim:

1. A line justifying device comprising:

(a) a backing sheet with a pressure sensitive adhesive film on its front surface and having a right hand edge and a cut paralleling this edge and being spaced therefrom to provide a strip that can be torn from said sheet;

(b) a front stretchable sheet of the same size and shape as the backing sheet before-the strip is removed from the backing sheet, said front sheet being secured to said backing sheet by said pressure sensitive adhesive and having transversely extending parallel cuts to provide a plurality of rows that can receive typing or other characters;

(c) said strip when torn from said backing sheet freeing the adjacent ends of said rows so that these ends will project beyond the adjacent edge of said backing sheet and will constitute adhesive free tabs that can be pulled for peeling the typed portions of the rows from said backing sheet for justifying the typed portions by uniformly stretching these portions of the rows to the desired extent before supplying them to said backing sheet in their stretched condition.

2. A line justifying device comprising:

(a) a backing sheet having-a pressure sensitive adhesive film on its front surface; and

(b) a front stretchable sheet secured to said backing sheet by said pressure sensitive adhesive, said front sheet having transversely extending parallel cuts equally spaced apart to provide a plurality of rows that can receive typing or other printing;

(c) the rows being adapted to be peeled from said backing sheet to an extent equal of the lengths of the typed portions on the rows, the peeled portions of the rows then being uniformly stretchable for aligning the right hand ends of the typed portions with a uniform right hand margin and then reapplied to said backing sheet in their stretched condition so that the pressure sensitive adhesive will maintain them in this condtion;

(d) said backing sheet having an edge and a cut paralleling this edge and being spaced therefrom to provide a strip that can be removed from said sheet; and

(c) said front sheet having the ends of its parallel rows overlying said strip and being removably secured thereto by the pressure sensitive film on said strip;

(f) said strip when torn from said backing sheet, freeing the adjacent ends of said rows so that these ends can be pulled for peeling the typed portions of the rows from said backing sheet for justifying the typed portions by uniformly stretching these portions of the rows before reapplying them to said backing sheet in their stretched condition.

3. A line justifying device comprising:

(a) a backing sheet having a pressure sensitive adhesive filrn on its front surface; and

(b) a front stretchable sheet secured to said backing sheet by said pressure sensitive adhesive, said front sheet having transversely extending parallel cuts equally spaced apart to provide a plurality of rows that can receive typing or other printing;

(c) the rows being adapted to be peeled from said backing sheet to an extent equal to the lengths of the typed portions on the rows, the peeled portions of the rows then being uniformly stretchable for aligning the right hand ends of the typed portions with a uniform right hand margin and then reapplied to said backing sheet in their stretched condition so that the pressure sensitive adhesive will maintain them in this condition;

(d) said front sheet having a right hand margin indicator that is of a color that will not be seen in a copy photographed or otherwise reproduced from said front sheet when the typewritten portions of the rows are justified.

References Cited UNITED STATES PATENTS 3,075,446 1/1963 Horne 95-85 JOHN M. HORAN, Primary Examiner. 

